Abstract
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Brian Belyea is first author on ‘Leukemia development initiated by deletion of RBP-J: mouse strain, deletion efficiency and cell of origin’, published in DMM. Brian is Assistant Professor in the lab of Ariel Gomez at University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA, investigating developmental disorders and disease states of the kidney and hematopoietic systems.